Late Autumn in Singleton Park, Swansea

[Delta Whiskey]

I took a walk around Singleton Park this morning, the late Autumn colours were beautiful. - http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=2010-11-02&w=7944055%40N08

http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad208/Delta_Whiskey/Park.jpg


Posted a bit of video to YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ebQi5lBEs

[ThunderFlash]

Nice, Autumn is the most underrated season.
The crunch of leaves when you walk through them :)

[KarlHungus]

Lovely shot m8, im from Swansea myself :)

[coiler]

was thinking yesterday twas some partial coloured trees, wish i had my camera ;)

[mac124]

Cool pic, nice one :).

[Mr. Grapes]

this autumn has been most stunning.

very New England like.

you have that hard winter we had last winter to thank for mega colours now :)

[power fuse0]

greens and yellows and reds

[Delta Whiskey]

Out on the promenade this morning: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltawhiskey/5141827187/#/photos/deltawhiskey/5141827187/lightbox/

[InvaderGIR]

Autumn is awesome...

http://www.finaldecap.co.uk/images/aria/DSC_9919.jpg

[coiler]

yeah had a look through your twitter link, get some of those up on here with IMG tags, impressive!

how come your up for the sunrise every morning anyhow? on way to work - or hobby?!

[Delta Whiskey]

yeah had a look through your twitter link, get some of those up on here with IMG tags, impressive!

how come your up for the sunrise every morning anyhow? on way to work - or hobby?!

Early retirement and a love of walking in the dark/early morning when there's not too many people or cars around.

Here are two of my favourite shots from last month:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/5098631785_a64ce7e6f7_b_d.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1194/5099202984_63f275cd31_b_d.jpg

[coiler]

V impressive! whats the shutter speed and aperture + ISO on the top pic?

[Delta Whiskey]

V impressive! whats the shutter speed and aperture + ISO on the top pic?

Exposure - 20 seconds, Aperture - f3.5 (Nikkor 18mm-105 kit lens @ 18mm) - ISO - 200 (Nikon D90 standard ISO) in full manual mode.

[KarlHungus]

That shot of the mumbles looks amazing.

[coiler]

Exposure - 20 seconds, Aperture - f3.5 (Nikkor 18mm-105 kit lens @ 18mm) - ISO - 200 (Nikon D90 standard ISO) in full manual mode.


ahh i've always thought high F8-F12 (ie low lol) aperture was better for sharp night shots for more distant detail, with ISO 100 and long exposure time.

What aspect of the pic would i see improvement on using your above settings VS iso 100 and F8 for example?

[Delta Whiskey]

ahh i've always thought high F8-F12 (ie low lol) aperture was better for sharp night shots for more distant detail, with ISO 100 and long exposure time.

What aspect of the pic would i see improvement on using your above settings VS iso 100 and F8 for example?

There's three-four stops difference between your settings and mine. So you would need to keep the shutter open for 60 seconds (or more) to compensate. 20 seconds is the most I have found that you can get away with without the stars starting to make trails, 10-15 seconds is better.
Keeping the shutter open for that length of time also heats up the sensor causing noise to appear on the image (its why video on a DSLR is time limited). I manually focus on the stars (if you're using a zoom lens, go to it's longest end, focus, then without touching the focus ring turn the zoom back to the desired zoom setting), don't worry too much about ground based objects as they're too dark to really make out detail and lights tend to overexpose anyway becoming blobs rather than pinpoints.

[coiler]

There's three-four stops difference between your settings and mine. So you would need to keep the shutter open for 60 seconds (or more) to compensate. 20 seconds is the most I have found that you can get away with without the stars starting to make trails, 10-15 seconds is better.
Keeping the shutter open for that length of time also heats up the sensor causing noise to appear on the image (its why video on a DSLR is time limited). I manually focus on the stars (if you're using a zoom lens, go to it's longest end, focus, then without touching the focus ring turn the zoom back to the desired zoom setting), don't worry too much about ground based objects as they're too dark to really make out detail and lights tend to overexpose anyway becoming blobs rather than pinpoints.

ooooooooh might have to get out the SLR again :)

was going to sell it (sony A200) and get a compact travelzoom, but i love the tinkering of night shots!

[Delta Whiskey]

ooooooooh might have to get out the SLR again :)

was going to sell it (sony A200) and get a compact travelzoom, but i love the tinkering of night shots!

I shot some with my Ricoh R10 compact, but it only has an 8 second exposure so the stars didn't show too well.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/2989104900_76304f626e_b_d.jpg

[Oldenr]

Well done Delta Whiskey, I used to live a few hundred yards away near Sketty Church when I was a younger, and spent many happy hours in Singleton Park.
Oldenr